Summer 2026

Spend your summer acting singing dancing learning making friends with Lights Up!

Lights Up! Theatre Company invites you to our 2026 Summer Program!

Enrollment is open to anyone in the age group of the specified program – regardless of Company Member status. Have you been wanting to see what it would be like to join us? Our Summer Programs are an ideal, low-pressure, and fun way to get to know the LU! community!

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Middle School Musical Theatre Camp

Rising 6th-8th Graders – All experience levels welcome.

Get ready for a creative and exciting two-week Musical Theater Camp designed for rising 6th-8th graders.

Participants will explore the world of musical theater through acting, improv, voice, and movement in a fun, supportive environment.

Camp dates coming soon!
2300 Garden Street, Santa Barbara

Click the button below and we’ll reach out the week of March 23rd when enrollment opens so you can learn more and secure your spot.

Email [email protected] with questions.

NEW FOR 2026!

High School Jukebox Musical Workshop

Rising 9th-12th Graders

Join us for an exciting two-week Musical Theater Workshop for rising 9th-12th grade actors led by Lights Up! alums Ada Green & Noah Dehli.

Participants will create a jukebox musical, featuring popular songs and improvised scenes, while building confidence, creativity, and performance skills.

June 22 – July 3, 2026
2300 Garden Street, Santa Barbara

Click the button below and we’ll reach out the week of March 23rd when enrollment opens so you can learn more and secure your spot.

Email [email protected] with questions.

Summer 2026 Program Instructors

Noah Dehli (he/him) is a LightsUp! alum and current sophomore at Stanford University. He's studying theater and music, and has recently performed in Into the Woods, Witch, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Cabaret, and worked as a designer and director for the student-written Come Again, as well as set designing the 48 Hour Musical. Offstage, he has also worked as a fight choreographer and intimacy coordinator. He is also a member of Stanford's long-form improv group.

Noah Dehli

High School
Workshop Instructor

Ada Green is a passionate storyteller, actor, and writer born and raised in Santa Barbara. A proud Lights Up! alumna (Seasons 2-7), she now attends Northwestern University as a theatre major concentrating in acting and playwriting. At Northwestern, she is a part of The Bix Musical Improv group and Griffin’s Tale Children’s Repertory Theatre Company in addition to her studies. Ada is endlessly grateful for the artistic foundations LU! gave her and can’t wait to return this summer!

Ada Green